"Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale."

-- Earl Browder

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“We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.”
“The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.”
“If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.”
“Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.”
“'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single sentence could explain: it means two people that were brave enough to show their scars, vulnerability, rough edges, happiest thoughts, along with their worst fears, and find a mutual respect, appreciation, and fondness for one another; they achieved a gift that not many people get to experience in their lifetime in its truest form.”
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.41, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.”

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